Loose ends? Discussing human capital and the economic value of education in the first half of the twentieth century¹Footnote

1 I am very grateful for the comments by the participants at the ESHET Annual Conference of 2019, namely those by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche. I am also very grateful to the two anonymous reviewers and to the editors of this special issue for their extremely helpful remarks and for their patience. The usual caveat applies.

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